Notice of proposed contract action (FAR 5. 203). The Army anticipates solicitation issuance for this requirement on or about 7 Feb 2014. 10 Feb 2014: Provided update for final RFP to Industry.

UPDATE 24 Jan 2014: Questions received from industry regarding this solicitation have been considered and are addressed in the development of the final RFP.

This acquisition is to award multiple-award contracts to provide technical support services to support the United States Army Evaluation Center. Five task orders will be awarded at the same time as the base multiple award contracts are awarded. In other words, an offeror can potentially receive a base multiple award contract and task order awards from this acquisition. The potential dollar impact over the five year ordering period is $444M.

Response date 26 Sep 2014 is entered for system archiving purposes. Actual response dates to provide questions, proposals, and other specified proposal information will be provided in the solicitation documents.

A draft solicitation document was posted on FedBizOpps for this requirement and the comment period for that draft solicitation is now closed. Responses to draft solicitation comments will be provided in the solicitation.

The small business partial set aside for the five year ordering period is 53 percent or $235,320,000.00. Of the five initial task orders being competed with base contracts, task Orders 1 through 3 are set aside exclusively for Small Business. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code for this acquisition is 541330. To qualify as a small business under NAICS 541330 - Exception 1, Engineering Services for Military and Aerospace Equipment and Military Weapons the small business size standard is $35.5 million. Task orders 4 and 5 are full and open competition.

Contract Type: The multiple award Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity will include Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee, Fixed Price, and Cost contract line item numbers.

Major Support Services: Provide analysts, project managers, engineers, and technical staff capable of supporting test and evaluation processes during integrated evaluations of major designated acquisition programs, major and non-major weapon systems, and information mission area systems being procured by the Department of Defense (DoD). To follow are the seven functional areas, their generic tasks, and expected outcomes.
1. Support of Evaluations
a. Support the analysis of the test data and other data sources to determine the effectiveness, suitability and survivability of the systems under evaluation. Performance of these services may require travel to worldwide locations for extended durations, days to months.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise.
2. Database and Data Management Support
a. Services related to database development, administration, and operation in support of the AEC missions.
b. Databases, administration services, and reports.
3. Manpower and Personnel Integration
a. Support related to the evaluation of suitability issues related to Manpower and Personnel Integration. For example, adequacy of training, appropriateness of military occupational specialties to required tasks, adequacy of system support, maintenance, repair, manuals, and other factors related to the integration of the system under evaluation in the service's business / support processes.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise. Subject matter expertise to support test events with analytical capability.
4. Methodology
a. Support services to assist in the development of evaluation methodologies. Execution of these services may require the skills in the development of test designs, design of experiments, statistics, measurement sciences, data capture, visualization techniques, data capture and reduction techniques, and a high level of familiarization with the technologies and science / phenomenology employed by the systems under evaluation.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings, conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise. Subject matter expertise that support the presentation of the methodologies and underlying analysis.
5. Modeling and Simulation
a. Services related to the validation, verification and certification of system models to be used in tests and evaluation.
b. Verification, validation and accreditation of models and simulations
6. Test Data Analysis
a. Services related to the data collection and reduction, including packaging of data, transport, retrieval, archiving and data mining. Analysis of the data to derive understanding of what the data means in relation to the performance measures under evaluation for which the data was collected.
b. Analysis of the data collected on a system under evaluation.
7. Studies and Analysis
a. Services related to the conduct of special studies related to the AEC mission. For example, studies may be required to determine best course of action, how instrumentation should be applied, support of program decisions, etc.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings, conducted by appropriate subject matter expertise.

POC: Melissa K. Sampson at e-mail melissa.k.sampson.civ@mail.mil

This acquisition is to award multiple-award contracts to provide technical support services to support the United States Army Evaluation Center. Five task orders will be awarded at the same time as the base multiple award contracts are awarded. In other words, an offeror can potentially receive a base multiple award contract and task order awards from this acquisition. The potential dollar impact over the five year ordering period is $444M.

Response date 26 Sep 2014 is entered for system archiving purposes. Actual response dates to provide questions, proposals, and other specified proposal information will be provided in the solicitation documents.

A draft solicitation document was posted on FedBizOpps for this requirement and the comment period for that draft solicitation is now closed. Responses to draft solicitation comments will be provided in the solicitation.

The small business partial set aside for the five year ordering period is 53 percent or $235,320,000.00. Of the five intial task orders being competed with base contracts, task Orders 1 through 3 are set aside exclusively for Small Business. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code for this acqusition is 541330. To qualify as a small business under NAICS 541330 - Exception 1, Engineering Services for Military and Aerospace Equipment and Military Weapons the small business size standard is $35.5 million. Task orders 4 and 5 are full and open competition.

Contract Type: The multiple award Idefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity will include Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee, Fixed Price, and Cost contract line item numbers.

Major Support Services: Provide analysts, project managers, engineers, and technical staff capable of supporting test and evaluation processes during integrated evaluations of major designated acquisition programs, major and non-major weapon systems, and information mission area systems being procured by the Department of Defense (DoD). To follow are the seven functional areas, their generic tasks, and expected outcomes.
1. Support of Evaluations
a. Support the analysis of the test data and other data sources to determine the effectiveness, suitability and survivability of the systems under evaluation. Performance of these services may require travel to worldwide locations for extended durations, days to months.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise.
2. Database and Data Management Support
a. Services related to database development, administration, and operation in support of the AEC missions.
b. Databases, administration services, and reports.
3. Manpower and Personnel Integration
a. Support related to the evaluation of suitability issues related to Manpower and Personnel Integration. For example, adequacy of training, appropriateness of military occupational specialties to required tasks, adequacy of system support, maintenance, repair, manuals, and other factors related to the integration of the system under evaluation in the service's business / support processes.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise. Subject matter expertise to support test events with analytical capability.
4. Methodology
a. Support services to assist in the development of evaluation methodologies. Execution of these services may require the skills in the development of test designs, design of experiments, statistics, measurement sciences, data capture, visualization techniques, data capture and reduction techniques, and a high level of familiarization with the technologies and science / phenomenology employed by the systems under evaluation.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings, conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise. Subject matter expertise that support the presentation of the methodologies and underlying analysis.
5. Modeling and Simulation
a. Services related to the validation, verification and certification of system models to be used in tests and evaluation.
b. Verification, validation and accreditation of models and simulations
6. Test Data Analysis
a. Services related to the data collection and reduction, including packaging of data, transport, retrieval, archiving and data mining. Analysis of the data to derive understanding of what the data means in relation to the performance measures under evaluation for which the data was collected.
b. Analysis of the data collected on a system under evaluation.
7. Studies and Analysis
a. Services related to the conduct of special studies related to the AEC mission. For example, studies may be required to determine best course of action, how instrumentation should be applied, support of program decisions, etc.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings, conducted by appropriate subject matter expertise.

POC: Melissa Sampson at e-mail melissa.k.sampson.civ@mail.mil

This acquisition is to award multiple-award contracts to provide technical support services to support the United States Army Evaluation Center. Five task orders will be awarded at the same time as the base multiple award contracts are awarded. In other words, an offeror can potentially receive a base multiple award contract and task order awards from this acquisition. The potential dollar impact over the five year ordering period is $444M.

Response date 26 Sep 2014 is entered for system archiving purposes. Actual response dates to provide questions, proposals, and other specified proposal information will be provided in the solicitation documents.

A draft solicitation document was posted on FedBizOpps for this requirement and the comment period for that draft solicitation is now closed. Responses to draft solicitation comments will be provided in the solicitation.

The small business partial set aside for the five year ordering period is 53 percent or $235,320,000.00. Of the five intial task orders being competed with base contracts, task Orders 1 through 3 are set aside exclusively for Small Business. The North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) Code for this acqusition is 541330. To qualify as a small business under NAICS 541330 - Exception 1, Engineering Services for Military and Aerospace Equipment and Military Weapons the small business size standard is $35.5 million. Task orders 4 and 5 are full and open competition.

Contract Type: The multiple award Idefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity will include Cost-Plus-Fixed Fee, Fixed Price, and Cost contract line item numbers.

Major Support Services: Provide analysts, project managers, engineers, and technical staff capable of supporting test and evaluation processes during integrated evaluations of major designated acquisition programs, major and non-major weapon systems, and information mission area systems being procured by the Department of Defense (DoD). To follow are the seven functional areas, their generic tasks, and expected outcomes.
1. Support of Evaluations
a. Support the analysis of the test data and other data sources to determine the effectiveness, suitability and survivability of the systems under evaluation. Performance of these services may require travel to worldwide locations for extended durations, days to months.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise.
2. Database and Data Management Support
a. Services related to database development, administration, and operation in support of the AEC missions.
b. Databases, administration services, and reports.
3. Manpower and Personnel Integration
a. Support related to the evaluation of suitability issues related to Manpower and Personnel Integration. For example, adequacy of training, appropriateness of military occupational specialties to required tasks, adequacy of system support, maintenance, repair, manuals, and other factors related to the integration of the system under evaluation in the service's business / support processes.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise. Subject matter expertise to support test events with analytical capability.
4. Methodology
a. Support services to assist in the development of evaluation methodologies. Execution of these services may require the skills in the development of test designs, design of experiments, statistics, measurement sciences, data capture, visualization techniques, data capture and reduction techniques, and a high level of familiarization with the technologies and science / phenomenology employed by the systems under evaluation.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings, conducted with appropriate subject matter expertise. Subject matter expertise that support the presentation of the methodologies and underlying analysis.
5. Modeling and Simulation
a. Services related to the validation, verification and certification of system models to be used in tests and evaluation.
b. Verification, validation and accreditation of models and simulations
6. Test Data Analysis
a. Services related to the data collection and reduction, including packaging of data, transport, retrieval, archiving and data mining. Analysis of the data to derive understanding of what the data means in relation to the performance measures under evaluation for which the data was collected.
b. Analysis of the data collected on a system under evaluation.
7. Studies and Analysis
a. Services related to the conduct of special studies related to the AEC mission. For example, studies may be required to determine best course of action, how instrumentation should be applied, support of program decisions, etc.
b. Data products, reports, expert analysis, briefings, conducted by appropriate subject matter expertise.

POC: Melissa Sampson at e-mail melissa.sampson.civ@mail.mil

The purpose of this special notice is to provide Industry a tentative time line for the United States Army Evaluation Center multiple-award contract for technical support services to provide integrated evaluation of major designated acquisition evaluation of non-major weapons systems being procured by U.S. Army. All dates are tentative, as certain acquisition documents require formal approval to release the solicitation.
Draft RFP Release: 1 Dec 2013
Synopsize Requirement: 6 Jan 2014
Formal RFP Release: 7 Feb 2014
Proposals Due: 10 Mar 2014
Awards (base contracts and task orders): 26 Sep 2014